Seventeen-year-old Cristian stepped through the swinging wooden door
separating the crowded waiting area from the judge’s bench,
straightening his slightly-too-big dress shirt as he slid behind the
defendant's desk. As his lawyer took the seat beside him, Cristian
slipped on the court-provided headphones so he could hear the
Spanish-speaking translator as his lawyer began to speak.
Within a minute, Bryant had accepted the plea and scheduled a hearing in which the court will determine if Cristian is eligible to receive asylum. The date was set for June 11, 2018.
“Are you available that day?” Bryant jokingly asked the lawyer.
“I don’t have my 2018 calendar in front of me, but yes, I believe so,” the lawyer responded.
“Okay, good. Have a good school year,” Bryant told Cristian. “I’ll see you in a few years, okay?”
The entire ordeal was over in less than five minutes.
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Good dodge here. If he is 17 years old now, then in 4 years he will be 21 a "legal" adult. What this judge did was to allow him to stay here in the FUSA for good. It pays to be an illegal here.
ReplyDeleteIt pays to be an illegal here.
DeleteThese days for sure.